 | United States - 1843
...heavy sledge, With measured beat and slow, Like a sexton ringing the village bell, When the evening sun is low. And children coming home from school Look...He hears the parson pray and preach, He hears his daughter's voice, Singing in the village choir, And it makes his heart rejoice. It sounds to him like... | |
 | United States - 1843
...heavy sledge, With measured beat and slow, Like a sexton ringing the village bell, When the evening sun is low. And children coming home from school Look...He hears the parson pray and preach, He hears his daughter's voice, Singing in the village choir, And it makes his heart rejoice. It sounds to him like... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1843 - 144 pages
...heavy sledge, With measured beat and slow, Like a sexton ringing the village bell, When the evening sun is low. And children coming home from school Look...catch the burning sparks that fly Like chaff from a threshing floor. He goes on Sunday to the church, And sits among his boys ; He hears the parson pray... | |
 | Children's poetry - 1843 - 172 pages
...his heavy sledge With measured beat and slow, Like the sexton ringing the bell, When the evening sun is low. And children, coming home from school, Look...catch the burning sparks that fly Like chaff from the threshing-floor. He goes on Sunday to the church, And sits among his boys ; He hears the parson... | |
 | American poetry - 1844 - 120 pages
...sledge, With measured beat and slow, Like a sexton ringing the village bell When the evening sun ia low. And children coming home from school, Look in...catch the burning sparks that fly Like chaff from a thrashing-floor. He goes on Sunday to the church. And sits among his boys ; He hears the parson pray... | |
 | The Mirror of Literature,Amusement,and Instruction.New Series.VOL.V - 1844
...beat, and slow, Like a sexton ringing the village bell, When the evening sun is low. 74 THE MIRROR. And children coming home from school Look in at the...catch the burning sparks that fly, Like chaff from a threshing floor. He goes on Sunday to the church, And sits among his boys; He hears the parson pray... | |
 | William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 484 pages
...heavy sledge, With measured beat and slow, Like a sexton ringing the village bell When the evening sun is low. And children, coming home from school, Look...He hears the parson pray and preach; He hears his daughter's voice Singing in the village choir, And it makes his heart rejoice. It sounds to him like... | |
 | William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 484 pages
...With measured beat and slow, Like a sexton ringing the village bell When the evening siin is low. M And children, coming home from school, Look in at...He hears the parson pray and preach ; He hears his daughter's voice Singing in the village choir, And it makes his heart, rejoice. It sounds to him like... | |
 | William Russell, John Goldsbury - Elocution - 1845 - 288 pages
...his heavy sledge With measured beat and slow, Like the sexton ringing the bell, When the evening sun is low. And children coming home from school, Look...among his boys ; He hears the parson pray and preach, And he hears his daughter's voice, Singing in the village choir, And it makes his heart rejoice. It... | |
 | William Russell, John Goldsbury - Elocution - 1845 - 288 pages
...his heavy sledge With measured beat and slow, Like the sexton ringing the bell, When the evening sun is low. And children coming home from school, Look...roar, And catch the burning sparks, that fly Like chaif from a threshing-floor. He goes on Sunday to the church, And sits among his boys ; He hears the... | |
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Week in, week out, from morn till night, You can hear his bellows blow ; You can hear him swing his heavy sledge, With measured beat and slow, Like a sexton ringing the village bell When the evening sun is low. And children coming home from school Look... 
